Morning journal and courier., 1887-11-08
RECENT PUBLICATIONS,

"How He Lost Her, or True Love Never
 Runs Smooth, :" is an amusing novel by Jona. l than Barrett, a civil engineer. It depicts country life and country life as indulged in
 by city people, and exciting engineering ad-
 ventures in the Allegheny Mountains before | and during the construction of the Pennsyl- 1 vania railroad. The love scenes greatly in crease the interest. It is jolly story and ! shows up the false side of many would-be
 temperance advocates in ludicrous way. l The style is spirited. G. W. Dillingham;, | publisher, New York. For sale in this city l by H. H. Peck
 l Roberts Brothers, Boston, have published
 a little volume entitled tChinese Ghost | Stories," by Lafeadio Hearn. The legends
 are selected for their weird beauty, and in the main exhibit the supernatural, appealing to the certain powerful emotions of the race I The six legends are "The Soul of the Great E Bell E ssThe Story of Ming Y i" "The Legend | of Tchi-Nin, ''The Return of Yen-Tchin- ! King.' "The Tradition of the Tea Plant" | and 'FThe Tale of the Porcelain God" The l book is furnished with an appendix notes I and glossary. The legends are representa- | tives of the mysterious pleasure grounds of Chinese fancy" and give the reader a com prehensive knowledge of the feature in the Chinese which they intended to show forth. They amusing and oftentimes lu- dicrous For sale in this city by H. H. Peck ''The History of Music," by Emil Nau-
 mann, translated by F. Pr@ger, and edited by the Rev. Sir F. A. Gore Ouseley, Bart, Mus. Doc, professor of music in the Uni versity of Oxford, is the first attempt to give a systematic history of music, ar- ranged, classified and illustrated with fac- similes of the more important musical doc- uments. All the available knowledge of
 musical history has been explored and the
 
 gated. The comparative method has been adopted, inquiring into the laws of organic and formal development which in art reign completely, and these have been applied to the arguments in hand. special inVesti- eation has been made into the authorship of "Eine Feste Burg" (Martin Luther's hymn, and an examination of the relation of the Italian masters to the great Sebas-
 tian Bach Effort is made to maintain an even line of argument and to praise rather than condemn. The work is intended to meet the wants of the public desirous of obtaining 8 general knowledge. It is pubs lished in two volumes, the first of which, beginning with the development of music in the classical and pre-classical eras, traces it down through the ancient oriental na- tions, dwelling at length upon the Chinese, Egyptians, Turks, Medes, Persians, Israeli ties, Islamites, Greeks and Romans, etc.; then the music of the middle ages; the Troubadours and the Minne singers; the old French school; the Netherlanders and early English music, concluding with the gradual decline of music with the Romance nations and it's rise with the Germanic. The last chapters take up music in Engr land before and after the Restoration. Vol ume II gives us the history of music from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the present. It's epoehs are the epoch of the great German talents; the influence of the German epochs Italy and France and the new romantic school. Both vol umes have numerous illustrations, monu- ments, engravings, portraits, fac-similes of manuscripts, etc. which add greatly to the force and the enjoyment of the work. It is complete from every standpoint. The arguments are such as not merely carry 8 point, but give much information in carry ing it. The work is published simultane- ously in London, Paris, New York and Melbourne. It has also been recently trans- lated into Dutch by J. O. Boers, of the Hague. It cannot but foster an ever in- creasing interest in the art and history of music. Cassell & Co.,, publishers, New York. Fer sale in this city by Judd the bookseller.